Media tracking and the quantified self
Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly have been documenting an emerging phenomenon they call “the quantified self“. The term refers to a set experiments that people… Read More »Media tracking and the quantified self
Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response
Heather Blanchard, Noel Dickover and Andrew Turner from Crisis Commons visited the Berkman Center Tuesday to discuss the rapidly growing technology and crisis response space.… Read More »Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response
Overcoming apathy through participation? – (not) my talk at Personal Democracy Forum
Micah Sifry, one of the founders of the Personal Democracy Forum conference, asked me to focus my speech at his conference on some of the… Read More »Overcoming apathy through participation? – (not) my talk at Personal Democracy Forum
Eli Pariser on Filter Bubbles
Eli Pariser offers the idea of a personalized conference. What if we came to an event like Personal Democracy Forum, and sorted ourselves by gender,… Read More »Eli Pariser on Filter Bubbles
Visualizing Twitter, understanding voluntary segregation
I’m a total Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas fanboy. I loved their stuff at the Media Lab, at IBM and now at Flowing Media, their… Read More »Visualizing Twitter, understanding voluntary segregation
ROFLCon: From Weird to Wide
An audio version of danah and my keynote is now available for download online. I recommend a background of lolcats – preferably multilingual ones –… Read More »ROFLCon: From Weird to Wide